On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 13:41 +0100, Chris Vine wrote: > On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 17:27 -0400, William Ramsay wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Can anyone explain to me how to go about handling the pressing of the > > return key > > in a data entry dialog? For instance, when the user is done entering > > data, pressing > > the Enter button on the keyboard should fire the OK button on the dialog. > > > > I can capture the "click" event easily enough. And I can capture the > > "key_press_event" > > and check to make sure it's a Return key, but how do I connect the two > > events to > > the same GTK_RESPONSE_OK result? The "click" event is established when > > I set up the button (i.e. with gtk_dialog_add_button). But the key > > press is > > established with g_signal_connect, which sends control to a handler. If > > you're in > > a loop checking the user input, you can't easily go off to a separate > > handler. > > > > There must be a simple way of doing this, but I have yet to figure it out. > > See Gtk::Window::set_default(), together with > Gtk::Entry::set_activates_default() and/or > Gtk::Window::activate_default(). You may also want to consider > Gtk::Window::set_focus() and Gtk::Widget::grab_focus(). Sorry, wrong list - this is the C++ wrapper. For GTK+ see gtk_window_set_default(), gtk_entry_set_activates_default(), gtk_window_set_focus() and gtk_widget_grab_focus(). Chris _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
